A list of all our podcasts. Enjoy!

Strong Female Leads: Episode 45

In this episode,(brought to you by Warr-King Wine) Carmen and Rachel talk about some strong female lead characters in literature. Let us know who your favorite strong female lead is; and, of course, check us out on Facebook and Instagram.

Little House on the Prairie
Millennium series by Stieg Larsson
Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Queen of Scots by John Guy
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiavernini
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
J. A. Konrath
The Lady Sherlock Series by Sherry Thomas
The Dog That Whispered by Jim Kraus
Cosmopolitan

Horror: Episode 44

It’s the last of October, and Halloween, and we would be greatly amiss if we allowed this month to pass without at least one episode on the patron saint genre of October: Horror.

“My Best Friend’s Exorcism” by Grady Hendrix

“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie

“Gerald’s Game” by Stephen King

“John Dies at the End” by David Wong

“Horrorstor” by Grady Hendrix

“Popular Hits of the Showa Era” by Ryū Murakami, translated by Ralph McCarthy

“Contagion” by Robin Cook

“Dark Carousel” series by Anya Allyn

Asylum series by Madeleine Roux

“Carrie”by Stephen King

“Pet Sematary” by Stephen King

“Heart-Shaped Box” by Joe Hill

“Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin

“Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Banned Books are for Rebels: Episode 43

In this episode, Carmen and Rachel talk about some banned book titles, and why being rebellious is exactly what challenged titles need. Let us know what really motivates you to read a certain title, and your favorite banned book titles; and, of course, check us out on Facebook and Instagram. And remember, Ray Bradbury said, “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

“Sag Harbor” by Colson Whitehead

“The Last Flight” by Julie Clark

“Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

 “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote

“Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck

“The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles” by Julie Andrews Edwards

“The Beautiful Miscellaneous” by Dominic Smith

Hidden Gems That We Don’t Want You to Miss : Episode 42

 In this episode, Carmen and Rachel shared some of their favorite books that you may have missed. Let us know what your hidden treasure titles are; and, of course, check us out on Facebook and Instagram.

“Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead

“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas

“Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens

“The Man Who Loved Children” by Christina Stead

“That Same Flower: Floria Aemilia’s Letter to St. Augustine” by Jostein Gaarder, translated by Anne Born

“I Was Amelia Earhart” by Jane Mendelsohn

“The Slaves of Solitude” by Patrick Hamilton

“Green Darkness” by Anya Seton

Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

“Where Dandelions Bloom” by Tara Johnson

“Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk” by Kathleen Rooney

“Expecting Someone Taller” by Tom Holt

“The Clothes They Stood Up in” by Alan Bennett

“The House at the End of the Moor” by Michelle Griep

“Independent People” by Halldór Laxness, translated by James Anderson Thompson

“The Ickabog” by J. K. Rowling

Cruelty”, “Madness”, “Deception”, “Lust”, “Trickery”, “Innocence”, “Fear” And “War”, all by Roald Dahl

Why the Fuck is THAT on my shelf? Episode 41

Rachel and Carmen started thinking about their bookshelves, and the various books filling them. Some are given to them, some they bought when they were in a different reading frame of mind, and some … well, who knows why they have them. In this episode, Carmen and Rachel are going to talk about some books that we see and think, “Why the fuck is THAT on my shelf?”

“How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House” by Cherie Jones

“The Summer House” by James Patterson

“The Accident” by Natalie Barelli

“Farleigh Field” by Rhys Bowen

“Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys

“Casino Royale” by Ian Fleming

“Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine” by Gail Honeyman

 “Putting People First“ by Governor Bill Clinton and Senator Al Gore

“Back to Work” by Bill Clinton

Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove series

“Inferno” by Dan Brown

“How to be a Good Wife” by Emma Chapman

Anita Shreve

The Best American Short Stories by year

“Legacy” by James Michener

“Cowsocks & Duckfeet” by Baxter Black

“Gumption” by Nick Offerman

“Winkie” by Clifford Chase

“Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell

“Replay” by Ken Grimwood

“Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer

“On the Road” by Jack Kerouac

“Miss Peregrines’ Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs

Deep Dive into WWII Historical Fiction: Episode 40

In this episode, Carmen and Rachel do a deep dive into WWII Historical Fiction and why it is such a popular subject. Albert Einstein made a brilliant comment when he said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

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“How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House” by Cherie Jones

“The Portrait of a Mirror” by Natasha Joukovsky

“The Stand” by Stephen King

“The Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer

“Ordinary Men” by Christopher R. Browning

“The Complete Maus” by Art Spiegelman 

“Sisters In Arms” by Kaia Alderson

“Silver Like Dust: One Family’s Story of America’s Japanese Internment” by Kimi Cunningham Grant

“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford

Books We Really Want You To Read – Episode 38

On the heels of the “books we really wanted to love” subject, it’s only fair that we provide a list of those books that we want others to experience. In this episode Rachel and Carmen talk about book that they really want you to read.

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